blue remembered hills

It is 1943, in the West Country, war is in the air and the world of adults is largely a mystery. The children have different fears and temperaments.

They tease, play, argue, and chase a squirrel.

It is a world of considerable innocence, but innocence comes tumbling down in an awful climax.

A straightforward play of children at play: seeing and interpreting the world as children yet played by adults.